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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-10
FOOTGEAR FOR LADIES,

Boots ought always to match a Co.'S
tune. There are many reasons for Il is,
but the chief one is that they give the foot
a tidier appearance, generally, than the
universal black boot, and, moreover, the
foot looks much smaller from the harmo.
ny with the skirt beneath which it shows
another point decidedly in it's favor, as
the tendency is to save women from wear
ing too tight boots. Perhaps it will take
time to establish this custom and secure
it popular favor, but it is sure to be &C.
cepted sooner or later. Some complain
that boots matching every costume are
too expensive luxuries, but the argument
does not hold good in the light of our
own experience, for the 'life" of shoe
ought certainly not to be longer than that
of gown, and the custom of putting on
pair of boots which obtains with so
many women, and wearing until worn
out with any and all dresses, is RESPONSE
BILE for the wretched incongruity of new
gowns with half shabby boots, and yice
0ersa; and too often a women's whole
appearance is thrown out of concord by
such discrepancies. The sum invested at
one time will certainly be larger when
wearing boots to match costumes, but
they will last longer, and what is of more
importance yet, preserve the feet well and
sound for walking; for it is an admitted
fact that boots worn without giving them
rest become very trying to the feet from
physiological standpoint. Indeed, util
ity, beauty, comfort, cost and all in favor
of boots and gloves for each gown, and
the woman who thinks she cannot afford
these articles had better purchase one
less gown year and devote the money
saved to constituencies of the toilet in the
shape of corresponding boots and gloves
for other eostumes.-Dress.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-10
ALONE

I miss you my darling. my darling;
The embers burn low on the hearth,
And still is the air of the household,
And hushed is the voice of mirth;
The rain FLASHES fast on the terrace,
The wind past the lattices moan;
The midnight chimes out from the minister,
And am alone.
want you, my darling my darling;
lam tired with care and with fret;
would nestle in silence beside you,
And all but your presence forget
In the hush of the happiness given
To those who through trusting have grown
To the fullness of love and contentment;
But am alone.
call you, my darling, my darling;
My voice echoes back on my heart;
l stretch my arms to you in longing,
And lol they fall empty apart.
Whisper the sweet words you taught me.
The word we only have known,
Till the blank of the dumb air is bitter,
For 1 am alone.
need you, my darling, my darling;
With its yearning my very heart aches;
The load that divides us weighs harder
1 shrink from the jar that it makes.
Old sorrows rise up to beset me,
lddoubts make my troubles their own;
Ocome through the darkness and save me,
For am alone.
Robert j. Burdette.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-10
MAKING A HOME.

1t is Frances Power Cobbe who says
that home-making is the peculiar and in
alienable right of women, "for man can
no more make home than a drone can
make hive" In similar vein of thought,
Rose Cleveland writes:
A woman who marries for a home
does not often get home; she gets @
house and husband, but it is not in this
way that home is gotten. For home is
made pleasant, not by instinct nor by i'm
pulse, but by serious and persistent eff
fort and study. Here is the great oppor.
tunity of woman. Every woman who
passes the age of twenty five should feel,
in some degree, the responsibilities which
come from independence in the items OF
her food and shelter. There can be nc
mature development where there is nc
conscious responsibility; and there can
be no responsibility without independ.
ence. When a woman has passed the ir.
responsible girlhood of her life, there is
nothing which SO contributes to that dig.
nifty, without which she is, and will re-
main, human invertebrate, as the con.
seriousness OF her legal right to her abid-
ing place; place to rest in, to grow in
to hide in, and one which cannot by any
legal right or wrong be wrested from her
1t is sad that many women realize this as
their great necessity late in life. But il
is better late than never"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-10
(To BE coNTINUED.)
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD PRAC-
TICE WALKING.

There is no reason why the average
woman should not add tenfold to her en-
joyment OF life and out-of-door living by
cultivating the noble art of walking. A
delicate woman, properly dressed, and
who knows how to walk, can walk twenty
five miles of a summer afternoon without
injury, when an equivalent amount of
other exercise might produce serious in
jury. Walking is the natural and nor
NAL exercise, and hurts no woman who
sets rightly about it. A woman who is
unaccustomed to vigorous walking, in Or
der to become good pedestrian, should
look first to her shoes. These should be
broad across the forward part OF the foot,
offering not the least obstruction to the
free movement of the toes. The heels
should be low and broad, and the shoe
should fit rather snugly about the heel
and instep. The full dress equipment
should weigh upon honest scales not
more than two and half or three pounds
and should hang from the shoulders with
out any band, pinned or buttoned or
laced about the waist. No woman can
walk in a corset. The walker must be
comfortable enough to be unconscious of
her attire. A hat that shades the eyes is
in order. So prepared, try any distance
that does not prove fatiguing as an initi-
al experiment. 1t will probably be from
a mile and half to two miles, and must
be walked at brisk pace, three and half
miles an hour being good limit. When
this can be done without backache or foot
WEAKNESS, and a well woman ought to
have no difficulty at her first trial; in
crease the distance during the leisure
days of the summer vacation daily, main
tanning the same gait, and fifteen miles
day for a week or fortnight in succession,
twenty-five miles day on any occasion
that demands it will be found within
any ordinary capacity with a month or
six weeks training. Meas.
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Make the Farm Home Pleasant.

Yes; make it so pleasant that the grow
ing boys and girls will not be looking
forward to the time when they will be-
old enough to leave the farm in search Of
pleaeanter place. We know a well-to-
do farmer, having eight children, who
as soon as they are old enough to sup
(: port themselves, leave their home. OF
the five boys, not one remains on the
farm. They have gone to clerkships and
other positions, in preference to staying
on the much despised farm. A glance in
the home may account somewhat for this
There has never been any effort to make
it attractive for the children. The pa
rents aim has been to work and save,
with scarcely thought that their chill
dren had any other needs than food and
clothing. They are active, bright-minded
boys and girls. 1t is no wonder that the
dullness and monotony becomes unen-
durable.
This farmer does not hesitate to spend
money in farm improvements, in fine
stock, or in anything that will advance
his financial interest; but any outlay for
the children's pleasure is regarded as I'M
necessary and extrsvsgant.
Children can not feel that sense of pro-
prietorship in the farm and it's profits
that is stimulant to the heads OF the
household, and something is needed to
take its place. Some personal property,
even if chicken or pig, is strong in
centive. Children are sportive by nature
all young animals are--and some diver
sion is essential for leisure hours; other
wise their minds will wander off and
dwell on the attractions supposed to per-
tain to village and city life.
A few dollars each year invested in
reading matter will not only supply
employment for leisure hours, but the
means Of mental Improvement as well.
There are SO many excellent, entertain
ing publications for the young, and at
such low prices, that no family in which
there are children should be without one
or more. But parents should discrimin-
ate carefully between good and bad
class OF reading matter, for there is a
large amount OF hashy, sensational
character, wholly unfit for the young to
read.
There is no reason why country
home should not be place of pleasure
and contentment to every member.
There is freshness and freedom in
farm life that can not be enjoyed when
person is surrounded by brick walls.
With pleasant mental recreation for leis-
ure hours there need be no unhappy
memories Of the farm to carry through
Agricult,rist.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-10
Birds and Insects.

so far as man has been able to discover
the laws OF nature are perfect in their OPP
peratlon. There is a sort of balance main
tanned that is necessary to maintain a
proper equilibrium. While there are
times in the rapid increase of destruc.
tive pests, in which it appears as though
the balance was likely to be disturbed
after time there will come some condi.
ton that effects restoration. The de-
structive insects that exist seem to be al
most innumerable, but birds exist to hold
their rapid increase in check. Take as
an instance the canker worm; they will
strip orchards of every vestige of green,
and ii this condition is maintained for
several years, will result in the entire de-
struction of the trees. But fortunately,
general prevalence of this pest has been
noticed to be accompanied by large guam
titles OF birds who just revel in the de-
struction OF the worms. Prof. Forbes,
OF Illinois, has given a statement of the
number of birds that are destructive to
the canker worm which we find numbers
not less than thirty-one species, part of
which we give as follows: The cedar bird,
field sparrow, blue jay, robins, cathirds,
brown thrush, chickadee, summer war
blers, rose-breasted, gros. beak, indigo
bird, red-winged black bird, orchard ORR
ole, kingbird, vine-choppers, red-headed
woodpecker, cuckoo, etc. Out of twenty
five birds closely observed fifteen devour-
ed canker worms with avidity, and it is
determined that the rule applies to thir-
ty.five out OF fifty-fve, and that furty-five
per cent of the food of the entire group
was made from csnker worms. 1t is even
found IN that case of an excess Of this pest,
many birds are diverted from their ordin
airy food to its consumption, fact that
also applies to other insects. From this
it may be seen that the birds are many OF
them much greater friends to the farmer
than he sometimes imagines, and especial
ly among the smaller birds; they should
be protected for the good they accomplish
at times when most needed.
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ssartr1, Hnnte and 6ardsn
Hints for the Housekeener.

Hints for the Housekeeper.
Milk bread dries out faster than water
bread.
Do not let stale flowers remain in a
sick. chamber.
Scald peaches and the skins can be re.
moved much easier than pealing without
scalding.
In baking apple or peach dumplings
fill the pan two-thirds full of water; they
are not 80 dry and hard.
Wash your flatirons in soapsuds and
dry thoroughly il they at all trouble you
by dropping black specke.
In baking custard set the pan contain.
ing it into another pan containing hot
water, and it will cook much better.
A few leaves of green NORWOOD, scat
tered where black ants congregate, is said
to be effectual in dislodging them.
1t is claimed that the Juice of lemon
squeezed into cup of strong coffee will
afford immediate relief in neuralgia head
ache.
Don't ask convalescent il he would
like this or that to eat or drink, but pre-
pare the delicacies and present them in a.
tempting way.
Sponge cake-One cup of sugar and
there eggs, beat well; add one cup Of
Hour and one teaspoonful of baking now.
der; mix we'll and bake.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-10
WHAT IT COSTS TO SMOKE.


Last year the losses by reported fires
in the United State reached total of
$l20,0OO,0O0, or an average monthly loss
of $10,000000. This is regarded as an
enormous waste and is largely due to in
cendiarism and carelessness. How to re-
duce the amount SO lost is matter OF
constant study. Legislatures, local gov
ernments, insurance companies, make
regulations and exercise the greatest care
to prevent fires. And yet the loss they
occasion is $60,000,OOO per annum less
than the amount paid by consumers for
cigars, and $86,500,000 less than the total
cost of tobacco consumed in smoke.
Last year tax was paid upon $780,
89S,488 cigars. The average smoker is
content with cigar worth $50 per thous-
and, or one that retails at five cents. On
that basis there annually goes up in somke
$180,000,000, or S15,000O00 every month,
or half million dollars every day. In
addition, boys waste on cigarettes S6,-
100000, and those who prefer a pipe
further sum of $20,000,000.
How many smoke? If we deduct from
the total population as non smokers all
children under fifteen, constituting forty
per cent of the total population of co.
100000, it leaves 100000, of whom one
half are females; deducting these gives a
male population, above the age of fifteen
of 100000. II six out of every ten
males above the age of fifteen smoke, it
means that 100000 persons consume
$3.50, 8,4S8 cigars, or an average per
smoker Of 325 cigars per annum. This
is less than one cigar per day. The aver.
age smoker, however, is not apt to be
contented with daily allowance Of one
cigar, demanding at least two. If the
latter basis is the nearer correct, the
army OF cigar smokers would be 4809,-
449, being eight per cent of the total pop
ulation above the age of fifteen.
Whatever the number of smokers, it is
moderate estimate to place the cost of
smoking to the people of the United
Othtes at ozOo,oUOjOOO. II bne cost OF
chewing tobacco is added the total expen-
diture for tobacco reaches 1856 800, 900;
that is sum that represents per capita
tax of 1914 per annum. If the number
of smokers is 1909, 449. the average ex-
pense of smoking Is $4,000 each per an
mum; if the number is 100000, the cost,
is $2S.64 per individual; il 10,SOO,000, it
falls to $19.12.-Americdn Grocer.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-10
PURE oRIENrALIsM

Some European ladies passing through
Constantinople paid visit to certain
high Turkish functionary. The host of.
fered them refreshments. including a
great variety of sweetmeats, always TAX
ing care to give one of the ladies double
the quantity he gave the others. Flat
tered by this marked attention she put
the question. through the interpreter:
"Why do you serve me more literally
than the rest?" Because you have a
larger mouth" was the straightforward
reply.-Chambers Journal
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-10

out in majestic grandeur, solid wall of
ice24 miles long, and from two hundred
to three hundred feet high, frozen Nj
agara. At 1850 we had anchored in front
OF the glacier, half-mile distant, in
twelve fathoms of water and close to the
shore. Most Of the passengers landed,
and most OF us clambered up the icy peaks.
The surface was broken by crevassee, fis-
sures and deep wells. A great quantity of
debris, broken rock, gravel, soil, etc., is
scattered over it, and imperceptibly borne
onward to the ocean. AS we climbed
from peak to peak in the vast field of ice,
the utmost caution was necessary to main
tain our footing. Pieces of rock thrown
into the crevasses on either side could be
heard as they struck in the water far be-
low. Amateur photographers were busy
getting views, some of which were admir-
able. This glacier is called "The Muir"
in honor Of Professor Muir, the first
white man to explore it. Concerning it
the professor says: "It is three miles
wide at its mouth, ten miles back it
is ten miles wide, and near this sixteen
branches of the first class unite to form
one great glacier; four of the sixteen are
over two miles wide; the distance from
the face of the glacier to its farthest re-
moved fountain is about forty miles,"
AS our vessel approached, an immense
iceberg fell with the noise of thunder, and
80 agitated the water Chat our ship danced
upon the waves. When we had returned
from the top we stood upon the shore
watching the vast wall of ice. Now and
then roar of often-repeated artillery or
OF pealing thunder would come to our
ears. 1t was the sound of the cracking
ice. Presently a gigantic block would
loose its hold and drop with the roar of
cannon. Then the excited water would
heave and swell until, reaching the shore,
it forced us to fee up the banks to escape
the advancing waves. At length we had
to return to the steamer. Here we lay
anchored all night. While we had been
wholly absorbed with the new delight our
ships crew was laying in stock of gla
cier ice for the round trip. So that we
have been drinking ice-water cooled with
ice 1900 years old more or less. At IL AS
on the deck of the ship we we're able by
twilight to read type of good size. Sun
day morning at 4:30 we turned away
from the glacier and steamed down the
bay.
Steering to the left into Chatham
Straits, we arrived at 2:35 P. M. at David
son Glacier, which sweeps down gorge
sloping to the bay. A fringe of frs hides
its water front. Its terraced walls look
like the broken and repeated leaps of a
river which has been suddenly arrested
in its course and transformed into solid
mass. Northward, as we turn away
from the Davidson, another glacier ap-
pears, and as we steam away southwark
two or three are seen upon our left, with
lofty walls of blue ice hundreds of feet in
| height. One is surprised and delighted
at the strange blue of the glacier ice. 1t
looks as if it had been bathed in the deep
est azure of the Skies Correspondence
Baltimore San.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-10
utwalk omnibuses, and give them long

outwalk omnibuses, and give them long
odds.
He was hardly aware of his enormous
strength, it was so seldom called into ex.
ercise. His books we're packed in large
boxes at the end of each session and sent
from his rooms to the Capitol, only to be
returned at the beginning of the next
session. Those boxes weighed nearly
five hundred pounds each, and we're diff
cult to handle in passages and stairways,
and SO were accompanied by four men.
Once when he was living at Rev. DR..
SIMPSONS, one OF these heavy boxes got
stuck in the stairway. 1t could be extri-
Gated without damage to the walls only
by lifting it over the banister. The four
men failed to apply their strength to the
most advantage, for they got in each
others way, and thus failed to move the
box. The Senator, hated and gloved,
ready to go out, came to the stairs.
"Why don't you lift it over the rail?'
said he.
How can wei" answered one. "You
have no idea of its weight"
Let me try" said the Senator, and
leaning over the rail he seized the rope
beckett at the end of the box and lifted
the latter clear of it's entanglements by
one sure pull, splitting his gloves, how
ever. across the back. The men were
amazed; and he, a little embarrassed,
said, II didn't mean to lift it, only to try
its weights" and then went back for fresh
glovee---A. B. Johnson, in August Cos
nlopOlitdn.
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The 4tnn1e Circle.
ROSES.

Let me lie where roses grow,
Let them their fresh green branches throw
Around my mound in the grass.
Let them lift, in their fullest glow;
Their faces high to laugh and show
A welcome to those who pass,
But let no sound by me be heard;
Babble or stream, or song of bird,
Be stilled in the calm eartn's breast;
In the quiet gloom let me lie,
When the tired ear and weary eye
May take their well-earned rest.
The day is gone, so long and drear;
Sweet it is to be resting here,
In the long and silent night.
For fear and grief away are swept;
Bitter tears are no longer wept
While wait for endless light.
Light to reveal the cherished dead,
In lands from which allills have fled,
And the ruins which death has made;
Lands which never shall hear sigh,
In which nothing but death shall die,
And the roses never fade.
Temple Bar.
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SUMNER SCENES AT ALASKA.

AT 4:30, while the passengers were
asleep, our ship shove up" her anchor
and started for Glacier Bay. Although
the mist lowered along the mountains
yet we had the most beautiful and superb
scenery. On the right and on the left
was mountain upon mountain, with lofty
cataracts, now a torrent, now a silver
thread, streaming down into our marvel
GUS river. AT II NJ. We we're at Chatham
Straits, at 3, Icy Straits, at $50 we pass
ed Willoughby Island and reached the
icefeld filed with bergs. While we we're
at dinner we came alongside large ice
berg of such beauty that the passengers
rose from their seats and cheered with
enthusiasm at the novelty of the scene.
We had greatly feared the mist would
obscure our view, but in due time the
mist lifted, and the great glacier stood
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-10
WEALTHY ON LESS THAN A
CENT

1t is said that in the southern part of
Russia the peasants use coin of such
small value that it would take250,0O0 of
them to buy an American dollar, and
these coins are 30 scarce that man who
has a hundred is looked upon as rich,
and one who has thousand is considered
very wealthy. 1t is strange to think per-
son wealthy who owns two-ffths Of cent,
and comfortably we'll off on one twenty
fifth Of cent. But the value of money
depends, Of course, on what it will buy.
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CHARLES SUMMERS GREAT
STREMGTA


Mr.. Sumner stood six feet two inches
high without shoes, and he was SO we'll
built that his height was only noticeable
when he was near a person OF ordinary
size. But there was manner about him,
free swing of the arm, a stride, a pose
of his shaggy head, sway Of his broad
shoulders, that gave to those who knew
him best the idea that he was of heroic
size. Then, too, there was something in
the intent look of his deep-set eye, his
corrugated brow, the frown born OF in
tense thought, and his large head, made
to seem yet larger by it's crown OF thick,
heavy, longish gray hair, all of which
gave the idea of physical greatness; but
with his frequent smile the set frown
passed, his whole appearance changed
and his face beamed like dark lantern
suddenly lighted. His smile effected
wonderful transposition in his whole ap-
pearance, and it set up peculiar sympa
thy between himself and it's recipient.
For one Of his sedeutary habits he had
extraordinary strength, and yet he was
not an athlete. While in Washington
bis only exercise was walking, and as he
believed it was the pace rather than the
distance which tells, when opportunity
offered he would go at rate that amazed
beholders. Some persons attempting to
join and keep up with him only succeeded
by taking an occasional hop, skip and
jump, such as children practice when
walking with their parents. Up to the
time of his injuries, he walked much in
Washington, for, as he said, he could
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-10

The philosopher spends in becoming a
man the time which the ambitious man
spends in becoming a personage.-Joseph
Rour.
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